BOSTON — The sharks are back!

The second largest shark species in the world is being spotted close to the Bay State coast, according to shark researchers.

Multiple basking sharks were seen off Plymouth Friday morning. Shark researcher John Chisholm was alerted to the site, and he counted at least five basking sharks close to the beach.

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President Donald Trump is taking his time naming a permanent replacement for his national security adviser. But he’s already sent a clear message: the job once held by figures like Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski won’t matter in his administration nearly as much.

Even before he removed Mike Waltz from the post on May 1, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three Democratic U.S. representatives for California visited the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday to voice their concerns after President Donald Trump told reporters that the slowdown of activity at the ports was “a good thing.”

Trump has argued that tariffs are needed to boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and...Read more

Airline chief executives are poised to work with U.S. aviation officials to throttle back more Newark airport flights, a fix that may ease short-term safety concerns but won’t solve long-term challenges.

The move comes as a key facility that routes planes into Newark suffered a second radar failure in as many weeks, making it the face of a ...Read more

India and Pakistan agreed to an immediate ceasefire mediated by the U.S., though each of the nuclear-armed powers soon accused the other of violating the truce.

“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” U.S. President Donald ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Friday denied efforts by disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to dismiss some charges and exclude evidence obtained during search warrants on the eve of opening statements at his sex trafficking trial.

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Arun Subramanian rejected the move by Combs to dismiss two separate ...Read more

ATLANTA — If you felt your house in north Georgia shake Saturday morning, you’re not going crazy.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake that originated in Greenback, Tennessee, was felt all the way into metro Atlanta. The United States Geological Survey confirmed the quake occurred at 9:04 a.m. EST.

The tremor was about 15 miles deep, which is ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the days before President Donald Trump’s administration moved to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption indictment, federal authorities raided the upstate New York home of Dwayne Montgomery, a former New York City Police Department inspector friendly with Adams, as part of an expanding investigation into alleged crimes linked to ...Read more

The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings for government workers, a California federal court ruled Friday.

President Donald Trump’s February executive order calling for a radical reorganization of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — With hurricane season only weeks away, federal budget cuts have left key Florida weather offices understaffed, and former employees worry that additional proposed reductions to staff and research could compromise not only accurate forecasts but potentially public safety.

A suggested federal budget from the Donald Trump administration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While California voters are sharply divided along partisan lines when it comes to election integrity and voter fraud, they broadly support a politically-charged proposal from President Donald Trump and other Republicans to require first-time voters to provide government-issued identification proving their citizenship in order to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California public health officials have announced a quarantine on mussels that aren't commercially harvested, cautioning that naturally occurring toxins make the species potentially poisonous to humans this time of year.

The order from the state Department of Public Health, which is issued annually, runs through Oct. 31 and ...Read more

A man who was jailed and paroled after a series of violent road rage attacks in Southern California was arrested in Hawaii on allegations of similar crimes, according to authorities.

On Wednesday, Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was speeding in a gray Tesla and exchanged words with an 18-year-old woman, who had parked her car on Halekauwila Street in ...Read more